Best Of The Jason Smith Show

Jason Smith and Mike Harmon celebrate a Friday night in style. Jason explains why Shohei Ohtani is "Hot Take Proof." MLB Columnist & Insider Bob Nightengale joins the guys for all the latest from around the diamond. It’s over for the Pac-12. And everything is fine for the Bengals who will be without Joe Burrow for “several weeks” with a calf injury.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the best of the Jason Smith Show with
Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Uh, we need to change some things. This is going
to be the Subway Smith Show with Mike Harmon. My
best friend, Subway Smith, Subway Smith, Subway Soul, No, Subway Smith,
get used to it, Get it going. You guys are
not gonna screw this up for me. No.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Hey, if that's where you want to go out, you
do it.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Nope, I eat enough Subway sandwiches. They announce today. Oh,
by the way, Subway announces a contest that the winner
that they will draw who changes their name officially to Subway,
will get a lifetime supply of Subway sandwiches and they'll
pay for the legal fees to change your name to Subway. Now.

(01:20):
Now number isn't.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
It limited to like fifty grand or something.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, yeah, you get you get the lifetime supply in
the form of a one time fifty thousand dollars payment
in subway gift cards. No, No, you get gift cards.
Gift it's on you to hold onto the gift card.
Make sure it's a gift card. I don't make sure
it's not. Again, it's a gift card.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I have to pay taxes on that. No, I do
you negotiate that they're gonna cover that.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
You're gonna.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
You're gonna that's like a fifty thousand bump to your income.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
You're gonna that's not over.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
That's not an annuity over your lifetime. That's a one
time fifty thousand dollars drama gift cards in your last No, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
You don't they're giving you gift cards. It's gift cards.

Speaker 4 (01:55):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
It's not it's not it's not some kind of income.
It's gift cards.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Now it's income, it's gift card money.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Wow, Well, and they would cover that.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
Then they've been a tax advisor. Well maybe they wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
They better come suddenly.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Maybe suddenly it'd be like when you're on a game
show and suddenly you have a giant tax bill for
the car you want.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Mmm. I would make them take care of it the
process and just give me, you know, fifty thousand dollars.
You can give me the gift cards go by the way,
you're paying, you know, twenty thousand dollars in taxes on it.
Whatever it is not, you can take care of it
for me.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
I'm not hi.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I will worry about that after. I will win the
contest first, and then I will worry about what happens after.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Yeah, I just think it comes down to this for
me is the look. I'm not. I'm not a big
swinger with you know, a two comma check coming in
from the good folks of Fox Sports Radio and iHeart
and media each year. But I do think my personal
brand and identity and sense of self is going to
cost a hell of a lot more than fifty thousand

(02:52):
dollars for a product I don't eat.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
No, no, Well that's to think, well that good. That's
easier for me to get it. Then you don't need
just call me something. So it's worth you, dude. If
I go in for I can get a.

Speaker 3 (03:02):
Subway sandwiches are like twenty bucks a piece. No, no, no, no,
sandw No, you can go now that they know they
spent eighty million dollars on sand on slicers, dude, and
they go paying a lot of money to Steph Curry
he ate free.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
I go in there, I buy this, an I get
I get Subway very regularly vomiting. The sandwiches are good.
You could get in there and out and get a
great footlong sandwich with drinks and chips and cookies in
there for just under twenty bucks. So if I do
that every day, Okay, I'm fifty two, So it's like,
you know, I'm not, you know, seventeen, getting this going

(03:33):
at Getty more than fifty grand. No, this works pretty well.
And let's be honest, like Subway Smith kind of rolls
off the tongue, does it. It's like a It's like
an athlete nickname Subway Smith. Subway Boom boom. It would
work out great. I mean, Subway Smith sounds pretty cool, dude,
that subway Smith. He scored thirty the other night. He
had ten threes in the first half. Man, Subway Smith

(03:53):
is awesome.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
So what is that? That's twenty five hundred sandos or combos?
I guess do they just give you the sandwiches or
can you buy a combo with it?

Speaker 1 (04:05):
No, it's a gift gift card. No, it's a gift card.
So you gotta be don't know. I could get the
sandwiches and I would either get two cookies or chips,
depending on my mood, and I get a drink that
I could get free refills on.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
But technology and stuff could limit you to only sandwich items.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
No, no, no, no, no, it's gift cards. It says gift cards.
That's what it is. Gift cards. Gift cards.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, because they can't put a chip on those to
restrict what you give charge or anything.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
Well, why are you so anti this? Why are you
so angry on a Friday night? I want to win
friends the rest of my life, and you're like, gotta
pay taxes on. You're not gonna be able to get
anything else. Just gonna be able to get a sub
that's all.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
It's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
What you angry about. You made a great tread with
the Angels the other day. You should be happy.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I don't know. Yes, you guys, those guys are just
ideas you traded, just loading around in the in the cloud.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Right, now you traded just a couple of guys, and
how suddenly you're mad on a Friday night.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
No, I'm not mad. I'm just trying to be the
realist of all of this. They you're just willing to
sell yourself out for fifty.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Grand I thought you were better than selling myself out
for free sandwiches in the foaming your self subway.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
Yeah, that all the thought that Walt put in. Yeah,
I will say this, my dad did win because my
name was almost Noah. I don't ever told you the story.
My mom really wanted Noah and my dad like Jason,
and I think that the thing that that flipped it
was my dad said to my mom, you know how
many Bible jokes he's gonna have to go through his
whole life if we name him Noah. And she was like, oh, okay,

(05:31):
so Jason won. It's actually not a bad I would get. Oh,
Noah Smith, do you Knowah Smith? I Knowah Smith. Oh
where's your animals? Noah, you're two by two. You only
have one animal with you, and I'd be going on going,
Oh the kids are amy. They're also mean to me.
Subway would have been better in subway now is better.
Welcome to subway. Yeah, maybe I would say that. Every
time someone come into my house, they come and open

(05:53):
the door doors open thing. Welcome to Subway. I would
even have the ding of my door opening, so it
sounds like you're entering a fast food shot.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Welcome to Subway Smith, Subway Smith, that's a pretty good look.
I'm not trying to dissuade them from advertising or sponsoring
the show in any way, shape or form. It's fine product.
Just you know, fifty grand I want a little more
from my identity.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Wow, what do you got? Frostberg?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Harmon.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Harmon's killing me with the negativity on this.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
He's over there with his Joe Kelly pouting face.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Hey it's the anniversary, you know. Welcome back, Joe Kelly
Way no kidding? Uh yeah. Hey.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
For anything you wouldn't do for free sandwiches?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Oh oh, that's lots of things I will I won't
do that. I mean, the list is short, but there
are things I won't do for sandwiches. There there are
like one or two things, I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Maybe even a little curious answer, mister.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Byrd, maybe tick them off. On one hand. Things I
wouldn't do for sandwiches.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
But there is this contest guarantee you that they're going
to use the new meat cutters every sandwich they prepare.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
They have to. I mean, kid, I would walk in.
I'd be a celebrity. Walk dude, that's Subway Smith. Yeah,
they give you a meat cutter. Yeah, I'm sure they would.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Now, if you could do that, you could be your
own cramer. No, but where does the meat.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Gu Yeah, but but no, no, no no, no, no
no no, they're gonna make the sandwich for me. If
I want and change my name, They're gonna make the sandwich.
They're gonna say, oh, can I see your driver's license?
I would say, here, it is Subway Smith, and it
will work out. Don't forget to tip to Welcome to subway,
Welcome to somebody.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
Uh you love this. You'll be all dressed up in
subway gear. I mean for if you know, we could
talk fifty grand for a tattoo on my back. I
think I could. I could be had for that.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Oh no, why then then that's forever you can I'm.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Like a racing suit. Well, I mean yours is forever.
You gotta legally change your name.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, that's okay. You can still call me Jason, though
you call it, call me Jason. Subway Smith, Subody.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
There's gonna be a guy at your side going you are, Subway.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
They have a guy next to me. Every time they
call me Jason, I get buzzed. Sods, just stop it.
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(08:08):
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try out and try it out, Subway Smith. Uh. Shohotani
had some kind of night, but not how you think.
Two home runs and two consecutive at bats a day ago.
Remember he left the second game of the doubleheader with
the Tigers after undergoing cramps did matter. He pitched a

(08:30):
one hitter complete game in the first game, two and
runs in the second game. How did he pick up
with today against the Blue Jays.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's supposed to be all weekend here at Rogers Center
at shoh He's welcomed himself to Cana put a third
night home.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Un ballely sports on the call. Three at bats in
a row, three home runs for Otani. Now he's on
pace for over sixty one home runs, just shy of six.
And then the craziness really happened. With the bases loaded
and one out in the ninth inning, Otani is pinch

(09:08):
hit four. The reasoning after the game the game just ended.
Blue Jays win at four to one. Angels had the
base load have been a red hot team leg cramps
for Otani. He couldn't bat in the ninth inning, and
so the Angels wound up losing the game for to one.
You get a called strike three where maybe Otani hits
a Grand Slam and the Angels finally get cooled off.

(09:29):
Otani couldn't bat in the ninth inning with leg cramps.
Q the hot takers, you know, And that's the thing,
this is the f you up until now, Like sho hey,
Otani has been hot take proof right like no one
though even the most desperate of the hot takers couldn't
even trot out of Otani's overrated Like what are you

(09:52):
gonna say? Look out good, the guy does hitty. He
doesn't pitch well I mean, no, I have a guy
pitches grant. I mean there was zero you could say
to say, ah, Otani's overrated.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Occasionally are the xenophobic, dopey quotes of he's been here
a couple of years, Why is he still need an interpreter?
Na yea, you know there's plenty of those clowns to.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
But you you talk about on the field, and there's
no He's hot, impeachable. Nobody else is hot to Lebron
James not hot. Take proof, Tom Brady not hot. Take proof.
Nobody is hot. Take proof except for show heo Tani.
He is hot. Take proof, except until now you're gonna
get a Oh why couldn't he bat in the ninth inning?

(10:33):
How bad with the leg crams? He couldn't bad. Something's
going on, but he is. He is absolutely hot. Take proof,
which is crazy because that never happens in sports. Usually somebody,
no matter what it is, even Mike Trout, who does
nothing but hit and play well when he's in the lineup,
is not hot. Take proof. Why can't Trout stay healthy more?
Why can't he get to the playoffs? There's nothing, No,

(10:54):
he can't even say, oh, Tani's never been to the playoffs.
That no, no, no's fault again. I mean, he is
hot take. That's how great an athlete that he is.
You cannot hot take him at all.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Yeah, today, I guess you opened the door something in Toronto.
Cramps man. We joked about it a little bit yesterday
because it was originally thought that there was a back issue, right,
you know, on the eve of all of the excitement
of him staying with the Angels and them going into
the trademark in and adding bodies. Geolido started today taking

(11:28):
the loss for the Angels after coming over from the
White Sox. But you know, all of that was okay, cool,
it's it's now time to fly and see what he
can do. And then when he left the game with
the backage, you're like, oh, we had all these nice
things and it was setting up nicely, and then it
came out as cramps. Okay, second day in a row.
That that's an issue and forces a departure in a

(11:50):
bases loaded situation. So yeah, it's eyebrow raising a little bit.
What changed, you know, in the physical chemistry all of
those I mean, but look, he's a human being, just pruse.
He's not a cyborg. Or, as we theorized earlier based
on the government's admission of UFOs and aliens, he's not
one of those yet either or still has the same

(12:13):
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Speaker 3 (12:27):
He is hot.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
Takeproof, and maybe Ellie Dala Cruz could be hot take
proof as well. Leading off of the Reds just now
Dodger's starting tonight, they could make another trade by the
time the game ends. Who knows. De La Cruz hits
one down the line in right field. That is a
double for anybody else in Major League Baseball, literally for
anybody else. It's down the line. It comes off the

(12:50):
wall very cleanly. Mookie Bets bare hands it and throws
it in and Dela Cruz triples and the play at
third is not even close, and because of it, they're
up one nothing. They get a groundball to second base.
I mean, day La Cruz just gets to third base
and you watch him run and you go, oh, I
can see why he gets there. Then you watch the
play from the Dodgers' perspective of the ball hit down

(13:12):
the line and Mookie BET's coming up with it. It's like, okay,
well this is a double, right, it's an easy double,
but he's not gonna Nope. He gets to third and
it is not even a close play. That is absolutely outstanding.
So maybe Ellie de la Cruz could be hot take
proof as well. Mike Carmen, No, not yet.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
He went a lot of stretch, about a three week stretch.
We had a bunch of over threes and over four list. Right,
he had that first three weeks was he was blistering
like the late July sun. Then he went a bit cold,
but the heroics still show up on occasion. Right, he

(13:49):
homewarding back to back games earlier in the week, and
that stride once he gets in motion and he ain't
stopping for any third base coach.

Speaker 1 (13:58):
Nope, mine.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
I mean, the only other guy that with that many
triples that kind of ease is Shoho Tani Oh too soon.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
Oh wow, look at you.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
Isn't he a league leader of the American League?

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trailing the Reds right now, three nothing, the red still
batting in the top of the first inning. The Ahmed
Rosario era not off to a good start, or the
Dodgers are. It may be all his fault.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Blame him, man, you gotta blame somebody. It's not the
sixth inning and something going on in the back end
where you're blaming Dave Roberts.

Speaker 1 (16:44):
It's early. It's early. It's early, and the Dodgers look
clearly they have helped themselves in a large way the
last few days. We've talked about this last night, the
trade deadline. The deals have begun right and you're seeing
the Dodgers make a lot of nice moves so far.
Bringing keik Nandez was great. I'm at Rosario for basically
nothing was really good. They get Lance Linn today, and

(17:05):
they bring Joe Kelly back on the anniversary of his
b pitch against the Astros. The Dodgers are making a
lot of nice moves. But I'm telling you what, they
got a big move coming. Whether it's the thumper of
a bat of Nolan Ornado, but they got a big
one coming. Joining us now on the hot line to
break it all down for us what he sees coming

(17:25):
up as the MLB trade deadline closes in. You can
fall him on Twitter at b Nightingale. That's at b Nightingale.
It's longtime front of the show and the USA Today
MLB Insider and columnst Bob Nightingale. Bob, what's happening man?
How are you?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (17:43):
Doing great? How about you guys?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Good?

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Apparently the Dodgers are going to make a trade every
day but from the beginning of this week until the deadline,
so they're working up to their big move on Monday.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
I'm not sure. I know they said it. Are happy
to the team right now? Yeah, you know they should
work at the vision not not even had to do anything.
So we'll see. I mean, obviously ill he's talking about Aaronto. Uh.
I just can't see the Cardinals Tradium. I just think
the pants would just go nuts. No, he loves it there.
Obviously he would leave his no trade class for La.

(18:16):
I just can't see them, you know, moving them. I
think that that Dodgers would have to get him attack.
It's just so huge if they couldn't possibly turn it down.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, I would have to imagine that. People in Saint Louis.
I was there for a couple of days two weeks ago, Bob,
and people just kind of grumbling by the performance of
the squad. But it seems like they've really taken to
Aeronato as his his homegrown.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
Yeah. They love to start players, you know, with Aeronauto
and Paul Goldsmith. If I, you know, bill statues of those
guys one day, and you know, if I you know both,
we'll go in the Cardinals Hall of Fame. Who knows
if you wearing cardinal uniforms or cardinal cap into the uh,
the Baseball Hall of Fame is the him, so we'll see.
I can't see him trade him. And you know, not

(19:04):
sure that Dodgers would just scamp to their farm system
for Aaron not. I won they're kind of gearing enough
for Johnny.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Is there any chance, Bob that they look at one
of the younger players, guys like a Gorman or something
that might be be made available.

Speaker 5 (19:19):
Yeah, well totably, they could they you know, get more
into the pitching. I mean they do have Jordan Hicks,
you know, their closer. Everybody wants Jordan Montgomery, so they
could grab you know, the starter reliever from that team.
Uh as well. You know Jack Celaherty's from La Area.
You know, he's certainly available, so they could go that

(19:39):
route as well.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Bob who trades more players by the deadline Tuesday? The
Mets of the Padres, who trades more guys?

Speaker 3 (19:46):
And the race to the bottom.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
I think I think the Mets to because they're not
as delusional as the pottery is thinking they were gonna
make the playoffs. Can I think they tell, you know,
let's trade there. I don't know what the powders are thinking.
I mean, you know they keep saying, oh, all this
talent is abound a click. Well it's gone for four
months now, nothing's changed.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
For the Metsicans. Can they move Verlander? Insureser? Is that
a potential? We've heard the Giants could have some interest
in Verlander.

Speaker 5 (20:17):
I don't think so. The I think both guys are
happy there. They both live in Jupiter of Florida and
in the in the off season, so spring training is
just you know, up up the road in Port Saint Luci. Uh. Yeah,
I don't see them one to be in trades. Although
Max Showser came out tonight and said how disappointing he was,
or said he was that they traded away the closer

(20:37):
Dave robertson last night. But I don't see him saying
I want out. Uh. I think both guys are.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Back Yankees taking on the upstart Orioles here big Al
East battle. Judges back. Are the Yankees buyers? What can
they reasonably uh look to acquire.

Speaker 5 (20:58):
Well, you get some more offense. But yeah, they're they've
been on the road scouting everywhere now trying to get
back in this thing. Obviously getting Judge back is huge.
I still think they make the playoffs of the wildcard team.
Obviously're not going to win the Alas with Baltimore camp,
but the way they're playing, but they can be dangerous.
I mean, uh, there's that one team, you know, outside Atlanta,

(21:21):
there's not that one team that just sits out there
like okay, out in the world, we're going to beat them.
I think there's a uh, you know, a lot of
by uh you know what, I want to say, just
you know, competitiveness out there, but no, no super super teams.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
Are there any big star? Do you see big stars?
See a big Not quite obviously Otani is staying off
the block right now. But do you see like big stars,
someone making a big move like the Dodgers used to do. Hey,
we're gonna get sures Or and Trey Turner. We're gonna
set up present future. Do you see a deal like
that happening?

Speaker 5 (21:51):
I don't, I really don't. I don't think we'll see
a uh sure as a Turner type deal. Uh you know,
I think the best ones. You know, if Ernano gets moved,
you know that's as if a uh you know, it's big.
If the Pottery's do trade, Josh Hater and Blake Smell,
those are you know, two big pieces too. But I
can't see anything bigger than that.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Yeah, it's a crazy time because we've got this muddled middle.
It seems, Bob where teams could go either way. Right.
The Cubs look like maybe Stroman Bellinger. All these guys
could be for sale and then all of a sudden
you raise an eyebrow, win a couple of games, and
their buyers. It's just a weird twenty twenty three.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Yeah, and the Cubs that you know, they wanted to
definitely sell and they you know, ran a real soft
part of or schedule. Uh. You know, they really haven't
left the Chicago area for a couple of weeks now,
not going further than Saint Louis and uh, and they're
winning a lot of games. So I don't think they
cancel as much as they want to. I don't think
they can aliant or fan base by saying we're giving

(22:48):
up when we're used a few games out of a
world car spot.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
If you had to project Bob between now and the deadline,
the one or two teams you expect to be the
most active, whether it's a number of trades or a
big trade of some kind, whether they get a guy
like Hater or Snell. Who are the couple of teams
you can say, hey, I can see them doing some
multiple things by the deadline.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
I just really expect Texas to be really active. I
think they may be the most aggressive team. I think
you know, they'spil over seven or a million free agency
the last two years. Team as well keep it going
on the trade market. They're all over to you get
Jordan Hicks. They like to get Jordan Montgomery too. You know,
it's a special season for him. Nobody thought to be
this good. And I think Tampa will be aggressive. I

(23:28):
think Tampa thinks are the best team they've ever had
in franchise history, and uh, you know, take advantage. They
just really have the pitching to go deep into October.
So I like Text to be most aggressive and maybe
Tampa next.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Bob, I'm gonna try to help you get you on
the bad wagon from my guys. Smith Here he's banging
the drum after the legged out triple to start things
against the Dodgers today, that Elie Dela Cruz could announce
himself into an MVP conversation. What say you thought?

Speaker 5 (23:57):
No, No, he's gotta play a Look, I mean, first
of all, he's only played for a few weeks, and
I mean he's exciting and why I don't get me wrong.
But also there's games he goes over four with forrest strikeouts.
Uh that's funny, is I mean? Ron Lacuna, you know
he should be the MSMVP, but you compare his numbers
with Freddie Breeman, they're not that much different. So on basis,

(24:18):
I think Freeman's got a chance to grab this award again.
I mean best is in the picture. But yeah, dayla
Cruz maybe a uh maybe next year.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Well see, but here here's my thought, Bob, is we
still have another couple of months to go, right, we
still have the rest of August, rest of September. And yeah,
they legged him and they clocked him at ten seconds
from home to third is triple in the first inning.
You can go back and say, when did the Reds
get good? When did they become a playoff team? When
they brought Ellie de la Cruz up? Their record is incredible,
as great a here as Akunya is. Having the Braves

(24:49):
have eight all stars. I mean like they'd still be
they'd still be at the top of the NL East.
They'd still be really good even if they didn't have them.
So when I look at MVP, I can say, here's
a guy that completely slip the fortunes and if he
has a full fourish months to play, like, why not Elie.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
De la Cruz, No hear he's saying.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
And they have taken off since he got there. And
this was the voting like twenty years ago. I think
you got something. Remember when Kurt Gibson won the eighty
eight MVP over Gerald Strawberry. Strawberry's numbers were so much
better nineteen since with the case too, just because he
hasn't played that long, his numbers would be door by
you know, pretty much everybody on his own team, let

(25:28):
alone the league. But I agree with you, and I
mean I would think he might get some you know,
nine eight tenth place vote type thing, but to win it,
he just started to started the season way too late.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
I tried for you, Smith, That's all right.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
We just have to wait. We have to wait for
him to do in credit, continue to do incredible things,
or the regis to trade him to the Mets. I'm
always thoughts. You can follow on Twitter at b Nightingale,
That is at b Nightingale. Always a great visit, Bob,
Thanks so much, appreciate it. Look forward to talking to you.
We'll talk to the deadline. Thanks so much.

Speaker 5 (26:00):
All right, thank you, stick care, Thanks Bob.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
So there you go. Bob Nightingale saying the Rangers and
the Rays will be the most active teams of the deadline.
Arenado not going to get traded. The Dodger still could
do other things. Mets will move their players in the
pod Treys are living in La La Land, thinking oh,
we're gonna make a run at some point, and they're
probably gonna hold onto their guys. Always great stuff there
from Bob. People are listening on. I gotta write this down.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
I said this, and this just went boom boom booms.
Answer as to answer, great stuff with Bob as always.
The last question that I debated asking was how do
we break up the al Central?

Speaker 1 (26:37):
It is broken up?

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Can we do it? Can we do it? Disperstment draft.
I'm not talking about guys getting traded off.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
It's old. Everybody stinks it's all broken up already. It's
been broken up for a long time. It's like a
big ice flow that was broken up and now it's
all very tiny as floss.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
We all have broken souls. Royals with twenty nine wins.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Sure, and they're only a game and a half out.
I mean, just think about that. But you know, the
thing is out the Dodgers, whether this Ronado trade happens
or not, it should happen. The Cardinals have to realize
we're a last place team. You know, suddenly, hey, we're
great from one year to next because we turn the calendar,
we all get a fresh start. But trust me, the
Dodgers have another big move coming. I'm gonna tell you this.

(27:14):
They trade for lance Lynn today, who you know was
gonna turn into a great picture because he puts on
a Dodger uniform. Right. He was disappointing this year at
a big year last year. One of those guys and
that still in the mid in his mid thirties, is
a pretty decent pitcher. But they have one more big
trade coming, and if it's not gonna be Ronado, they
will move on someplace else. They will get one more
trade to get a big bat in their lineup for

(27:37):
the stretch. Run stop. It's not gonna be.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
A lot that now, that would be you know what.
These other contracts are untradeable, But I gotta make an
example of someone. Pete. Pete, by the way, your think
with the Cardinals, we had.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Two home runs tonight, We two home run today. It's
like seventy five.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yes, it's happening.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
It's science.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
Just to go back to your Cardinals thing, just for
for a minute though, and fifty eight entering the night's
play with with the Cubs. Look, it is an anomaly.
I mean yeah, they were barely about five hundred in
the COVID year. But otherwise ninety three, ninety ninety one,
eighty eight, Man, those are their last four full seasons.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Sounds that's not saying my grades in school ninety three,
eighty eight, ninety one never did pretty well, No, dude,
I was. I did good in school, man, I've graduate
top ten percent of I said I did good in school,
I did, I did, I did good, I did good,
cookies good. I haven't been in school in a long time,
so certain skills erode over the years. But I did
very speak.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
For a living, my man, I did good in school.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
And you can still say I did you did well,
you did good, you did know just because it's.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Been dumbed down, my idiots, you've been you can beat
me down at run the dictionaries and stuff. Fine, I
use them in the words inappropriately and incorrectly. But because
so many of you aren't bothering to retain anything you
were taught, will change the dictionary and James could.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
You can say I did good in school, which it
doesn't sound as good as you say I did well
in school. I did well in school. Yeah, nah, I
did good in school. I was good top ten percent
of my class. I mean I peaked in high school
with my great Actually yeah I kind of did, because
college college so much, not so much.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Subway. Yeah, but you just have to keep going.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
I gotta get that. Hey, hey, you know what Jason
Smith did?

Speaker 5 (29:20):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (29:20):
We graduate? Well, what can we do? Like he did
he hear a disease?

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Did he do so?

Speaker 1 (29:24):
No?

Speaker 3 (29:24):
No?

Speaker 1 (29:24):
No, he changes name to Subway. We got to put
him up in the alumni section. All right, let's get
that going right now? Uh, Twitter at owt about Afresca?
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Speaker 6 (30:00):
Be more than fifty k the.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Enemy Jersey Mike to Sega. Why not fifty k if
that's free sandwiches for.

Speaker 6 (30:06):
Life, Yeah, which aren't as good as subways, but they're good.
And but I've never lived in Jersey and my name
is not Mike, so it's gonna be after me.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
But it's a pretty cool nickname though. Hey, you know
Jersey Mike. Yeah, he's pretty good. He knows his stuff.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
That should be Mike Trout.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Actually, okay, sure, I'll literally Jersey Mike. Why is that
not his nickname? Why do people not calling him that?

Speaker 6 (30:24):
I don't understand if he was in Philly or Jersey
right now?

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Call him Jersey Mike. Yeah, absolutely, okay.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
By the way, he referenced the quote from Max Scherzer
after the Mets win tonight, and the Mets record is
a robust forty nine and fifty four.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
We haven't been five games away from five harder in
a few weeks. All we had to do was quit
on the season, and now we're playing well.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
They said they traded our closer away. He says, I
gotta have a conversation with the front office regarding the
direction they intend to take with the team.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
What is it?

Speaker 1 (30:53):
What has he been living on Mars The last the
last four months. But they're twenty games out of first
place in the NLS, stayed at eight games out of
the Wildcard. What does he think because he did not look,
you know, I just looked at the standings and apparently,
I mean really, he thought they were in the Al Central.
I think you know what, I would say, Hey, if
you're unhappy, how about you we figure out some money,

(31:14):
you take some you give some money back, like Aaron Rodgers.
We will find a new destination for you. If you're
not happy, we could do that.

Speaker 6 (31:20):
Max sures Are lowered his era to four tonight with
this win over Washington five to one. Born Bear with
two homers in all four all five RBIs Pete Alonzo
thirty homers and batting two twenty.

Speaker 4 (31:32):
Future Dodger Steve Hey.

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Dave Kingman would be jealous of that two twenty batting average.

Speaker 6 (31:37):
Yes, yeah, I think he's absolutely no.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
No, because one year, I want to say Kingman had
thirty eight home runs and he hit one ninety seven.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
I want to say that's an ad was an actual
year for Dave king.

Speaker 6 (31:48):
Rob's dead reference is good, though, because in the American
League won the year he had something like thirty homers
but less than sixty RBIs, which meant he batted himself
in more than he batted in anybody else on his.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Clearly, most of the time at bat he was a
deer in the headlights facing the other pitchers.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
The vy trade deadline is Tuesday. The La Dodgers management
labor day and night scouring the country trying to locate
a starting pitcher with an ERA as high as that
of all the kids that they've had to use in
the rotation this season. They have found their man. Lance
Lynn is a Dodger, and because the Dodgers don't have
enough relievers with an ERA of five or more, Joe

(32:27):
Kelly was included in the deal onto the World Series.

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Hey, these are Joe Kelly's gonna come back, have an
e ray of two and a half, and lance Lyn's
gonna show up and gonna win eight games over the
course the next two months. Suddenly he's gonna be pitching
Game two of the NLDS.

Speaker 6 (32:43):
Just watch, Yeah, well the latter part I certainly.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Kershaw Game one, lance Lynn Game two, Carlos Carrasco Game three,
Just watch, just wait, and then White Scotch World Series
four just wait.

Speaker 6 (32:56):
Tonight's kid on the mound not quite ready for the
majors is Bobby and Miller. Five batters into the game,
the Reds had hit for the cycle tonight single, double, triple, homer,
and you referenced the triple Jason Smith, Elie Dala Cruz,
a flash around the base, pass to third. It would
take some humans ten seconds to go from home to first.

(33:17):
Swing the bat go home to first ten seconds. He
went home around to third in ten point eight four seconds.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
I mean that it was a hit down the line.
Betts came up with it bare handed through it right,
and that's a double for anybody else in baseball. And
it wasn't even a close play at third. It wasn't
even close.

Speaker 6 (33:34):
And you've got a gold glove right fielder who knows
I'm not going to get this guy. So instead of
planting my feet and making a real throat, let's just
barehead it and get it in.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
Yeah, I mean, Mooie Best has me going, wow, Okay,
that was special right there.

Speaker 6 (33:48):
I have seen this.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:49):
Red's three to one over the Dodgers in LA bottom
of the second Red Sox lead at San Francisco won nothing.
Bottom of the second, Padres ahead over Texas won nothing
in the bottom of the third, and the Mariners lead
at Arizona for nothing top of the fourth. Oh, we
mentioned the Reds. Tonight they announced they've given their manager,
David Bell an extension through twenty twenty six. The A's

(34:09):
worst in the American League are at Colorado, worst in
the National League this weekend. A's are leading seven to
one in the seventh, have seven runs, that is correct
in one game. It's course field in ways. But yeah,
they've almost pretty much shot their wad for the weekend.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Event ready. I don't think they've scored seven runs in
a game since since that big game that they've tied
the record on in Moneyball.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:36):
So of course Billy Bean is not watching this game.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
I don't go to the games.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
Cubs to the ninth with a lead at Saint Louis
of three to two. And in case you didn't see
this from last night, pitcher Miles Michaelis hit a Cubs better.
He's appealed the suspension he got today for that, a
five game suspension. Ray's are leading at Houston four to three.
In the top of the night. The Royals are ahead
of the first place Minnesota Twins four to two in
the bottom of the eighth. The Yankees had a rain

(35:02):
to lay at Baltimore nearly two and a half hours
at the start. That's scoreless. Top of the fifth and
the other games in Atlanta. Braves over the Brewers ten
to seven. Top of the Niants. Back to you, Thanks
a bunch, Steve O.

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come in your way in about ten minutes. But the
college football landscape, I don't think I think people understand, Mike,
just how much clarity we're getting on the future of
college football in the last forty eight hours, right because
you see the story. Okay, Colorado is gonna leave for
the for the Big twelve. Okay, Colorado was the big

(37:15):
last shiny object that the PAC twelve had because USIL
and USC have left for the Big ten and they're
gonna be there in a year and a half. Organ
But Colorado's got Deon Sanders. I mean, that's a there,
must see TV every week.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
He's also there the entire time.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
No, but hey, everybody's gonna want to know what's Colorado doing.
You're talking about the future of the PAC twelve. It's Colorado,
Deon Sanders. What's gonna happen? But yeah, you're right. Oregon
is good too, and and so is Washington. But you've
seen the two marquee teams leave and now the next
team you are hoping to be a marquee team, they're
leaving too. There's no television contract for the PAC twelve.
Who said today they vowed to expand? Yeah, really expand? Hey,

(37:55):
University of San Diego, San Diego State, No, No, No, University
of San Diego where more coach before he went to Stafford. Hey,
do you want to join the PAC twelve? Do you
want to do? Hey? You see Santa Cruz, Hey, Banana slugs.
You want to jove in, How the hell is the
Pac twelve gonna expand it's over. For the Pac twelve,
it's over. They're going to be an also ran conference
in football. They're gonna get whatever small teams they can

(38:18):
to come in, and the Pac twelve is gonna be
the Mountain West except without Boise State, and they're gonna
find it impossible to compete at the level that the
other conferences are gonna compete in because now we're gonna
be down to the four big conferences, the ACC, the SEC,
the Big Ten, which I keep telling them they're gonna
add team. They're gonna get to the Big twenty. I
bet you Washington leaves for the Big Ten, so is Oregon.

(38:39):
The Big twelve is gonna get to the Big sixteen.
The Big twelve actually said today they want to get
to fourteen teams soon, so they're gonna add more teams
instead of just Colorado. So we're gonna get to that
big vision sooner rather than later of four super conferences,
and we're gonna eventually get a teams in each division
each conference, and that's where the playoff teams are going

(39:02):
to come from. So forget about the Hall. We gotta
worry about sliding teams in. We got an extra team
from the PAC twelve. How do we parse it out equally?
Even though we're changing the playoff coming up soon, not
gonna have to worry about that. You're gonna have the
four big super conferences that are gonna have all the teams.
We have enormous clarity about the future of college football
in the last forty hours. I don't think people have

(39:22):
seen that.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
Yeah, I think it's the question the PAC twelve in particular,
right as we talk about the shifting sands and what
kind of deal they can get. That's the multi billion
dollar question in all of this, right, what's done in
the past. Yeah, we mock it and we've derided it
for as long as you and I have been on
the air together. The different missteps along the way, and

(39:45):
fiduciary irresponsibility in terms of taking care of these things,
and when you start getting into teams with their own networks,
you look at what Texas had done, it just really
complicates the model that everybody should have been following from,
at least from the media rights perspective. Was all everything
that the Big ten had done right and then the

(40:06):
SEC just took over dominance, gets you giant paydays. I mean,
that's all there is to that. But for the PAC twelve, now,
the next iteration might will they be sexy names like
USC and UCLA. No, but I don't think they go
quietly into the good night. I don't think we get
that consolidation quite so fast. But yeah, it's gonna make
for some really strange bedfellows here the next couple of years.

(40:28):
Because you mentioned Oregon and you mentioned Washington after I
brought up Oregon, Like, who's to say the two of
them don't become really odd inhabitants of the Big twelve. Right,
those are the teams you add to get to your fourteen.
It doesn't mean no, geography doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
It doesn't get odder than USC and you see LA
the Big twelve.

Speaker 3 (40:47):
But that's the point, right, is that we're already at
this Geography doesn't matter like all those years ago when
when you had Rutgers and Penn State joined the Big ten.
It's like we want those TV markets. That's what we're at.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
It's if I thought there was a way forward for
the PAC twelve, I would tell you, but you're not
getting your marquee schools back. No one big is going
to join you. You don't have the money to say,
hey come here, come replace USC and UCLA, and you're
not going to get any big schools to leave anyway.
So I don't see the PAC twelve is like whistling
the dark Man. It's they have to understand this is

(41:22):
the reality we're at right now, and we have to
thank Larry Scott for everything that went on up until
we're at the PAC twelve is done. It is going
to be a dead football conference. It'll be an also
ran conference. Like we talk about the non Power five,
so now we're going to talk about the Power four conferences.
It's done selfishly.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
I hope they book a deal that pays out more
than thirty one point six million dollars a year.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
I think they can laugh at Colorado.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Aaron Rodgers still makes more money than them, and he
took a thirty five million dollar pay cut. Thank you,
Larry Scott. Relic NFL Quarterback Story is coming up next.
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(42:52):
the night tonight. Dodgers right now trailing the Reds three
to one, but it's early and the Dodgers may make
another trade or two before the night is over.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Can't tell man.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
Aaron Judge back tonight for the Yankees. He's got two
walks Yankees and the Orioles zip zip top of the
sixth inning. I believe, although I can't say this for certain,
Aaron Boone has not been thrown out of tonight's skin.

Speaker 3 (43:12):
O all there.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Yeah, he's still there. But yet it's only the sixth
inning yet yet, it could be yet, could be yet.
But how about a couple of big, fresh, big time
quarterback stories as we go forward here. We had a
big football hour plan for you coming up here on
the show. Number one, let's deal with Joe Burrow. After
leaving practice yesterday for the Bengals, rolling out came up

(43:37):
lame a calf injury. We saw the initial diagnosis yesterday
by internet doctor saying, hey, he's moving his foot pretty well.
I don't think it's going to be a torn achilles.
It is a calf injury, and according to Zach Taylor,
Bengals head coach today, he will be out.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
A few weeks.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
Now.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Hear that, You go, oh my goodness. But let's be honest.
It's fine, all right. It's the best case scenario for him.
He has never had a lot of training camp and
he still turned out to be one of the top
five quarterbacks of the NFL. He's gotten some time already.
He wasn't gonna play in the preseason anyway. It's still July.
You have another you have another six weeks until they

(44:16):
have to play for real. It's going to be absolutely fine.
This is a best case scenario for the Bengals is
week one in Jeopardy. Sure, he can always say that
you don't know how it's going to recover, but this
is early in camp. Again, the calendar is still in July.
You're not playing until we get to the first week
of September. I'm pretty sure things will be okay. And
Joe Burrow's gonna hop back in like he's not missed

(44:39):
a beat because that's kind of how it's been for
him throughout his career so far.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
Yeah, don't see there being any real hampering to this
as long as he gets proper time to recover, doesn't
feel like he needs to rush back, and they're judicious
about the rehab process. Look, whenever you can get some
meaningful reps and extra reps for your back. But I
know it's Trevor Simon. I'm not trying to do the
Northwestern thing because lord knows, I don't want to talk

(45:05):
about that's my school right now.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
You just did.

Speaker 3 (45:08):
You just did as you're trying to go through it. Well,
I had to do it because you were going to
go oh, get the Northwestern guys like no backups. Getting
significant work helps you later on in the event that
Burrow does sustain an issue, an illness, whatever it is,
that would keep him out of a game later on
in the season. So I think that's only a positive.

(45:29):
You know. I'm trying to be glass half full guy
here because obviously injuries and we watched so many guys
go down the same practice day. That was a really
bad two hours of news updating. So I walked away
from Twitter X.

Speaker 1 (45:44):
Yeah. I was like, I'm not doing this, and I'm like,
just practice is over right, it's over let's it's over ended,
ended now and you see what's happening around the league
and this practice.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
Who's got a camera on Justin Field? I want to
see where he is and what kind of ice cream
he's eating at having lunch and sitting in a meeting room.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
And Justin Field is going to miss the season due
to an ice cream injury. He ate too much and
you got brain freeze and he says he's out now
till probably late December. That's a tough break there.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
That would be a real tough break now there, especially
if he had to settle on an ice cream flavor
he didn't like.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
Oh, chocolate peanut butter. Oh, come on, the guy lawns
it on French vanilla. Who the hell eats French vanilla?
Nobody does? What the hell?

Speaker 3 (46:26):
Man? Well, I mean it's a nice base. Yeah, I
mean that's kind of like the mixer, you know, when
when you're gonna have a cocktail. No, you want the
you need the margarita mix, but you need something else
to make it work, now, don't ye.

Speaker 1 (46:38):
No, vanilla bean is the mix. French villa. Now, French
villa is just like, oh, it's just vanilla. No, No,
vanilla bean is what you want. That's alright, Well look
for that later on.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
But yeah, for Joe Burrow, yeah, it's tough when whenever
you see a starter go down and I know, it
immediately opens up the conversations of how hard do you practically? No,
the guy was training all off season. It's not like,
you know, he was in mothballs since the last game
the Bengals played, and suddenly he showed up. Anything I want,
not that I want him on quarterback because he's already

(47:08):
said I want to no part of it. But he
was really interesting talking about what he did in the
off season, you know, talking about YouTube. Well, I'm not
exclusive really to any channel. I kind of bouncer. Hey,
I played video games, I watched some YouTube, I did this,
and just moving on. I'm not very interesting.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
But I'm just waiting to my sixty five million dollar
a year contract, whether it's here or someplace else, you know.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
And that's that's the only thing in the short term.
You're like, all right, does this short term? They decide?
All right, we were gonna write you that big novelty
check and we had a guy in the back. He
was blowing up balloons. So we're gonna stop that now.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
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(48:10):
Everything is fine. For Joe Burrow, everything is fine. I
told you two years ago. The era of good feeling
for the Bengals this year. They're gonna be great for
the next decade. Listen to me, Everything is fine. Now,
let's get to San Francisco, where things are getting real interesting.
Brock Purdy came back this week after his injury. We

(48:31):
thought he was gonna be out for a long time.
The forty nine ers kind of slow played everything. They
signed Sam Darnold. Trey Lance was gonna get the reps
with the Ones, but nobody was sure just when Perdy
would be back from his UCL injury that he suffered
in the playoffs. He's back at practice, no limitations, and
already the breakdown of the snaps with the first team

(48:53):
goes like this. Perdy is getting more than fifty percent
of the first team reps already. Trey Lance and Sam
Donald are right around twenty percent. Now for Sam Donald,
of course he knows I'm coming in as the backup
or the backup backup. But all of a sudden, Trey Lance,
brock Perty has not been eased back in at all.
This is not Hey, Brock is back. We'll make sure

(49:15):
Trey is gonna get the reps. He says, I'm back.
He's at practice and already Perdy is getting fifty percent
of the reps, twice as many first team reps as Lance.
And we've seen some reports that Trey Lance really hasn't
looked that impressive. I'll tell you what a big piece
of drama is gonna be over the course of the
next three to four weeks. One of those guys isn't

(49:38):
making it to the season with the forty nine ers,
and it's gonna be Trey Lance.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
I'm surprised he was there now, well, surprise he wasn't
traded during the draft season.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
I think they wanted to see Perdy coming back first, like, hey,
what if his UCL keeps him out into October and well,
then maybe we'll get a chance and we'll get lucky.
We'll see Trey Lance will have to play and suddenly, hey, look,
Trey Lance is pretty good. But I think they wanted
to make sure. But now that Lance is back, and
now that Bert Perdy is back and he's taking a
lot of reps, within the next week or two, you're

(50:08):
gonna start seeing trade stories start to bulk up in
a large way because they're not gonna go into this
season with all three of those guys at quarterback, right,
they're not. They like Sam Darnold and Trey Lance is
a guy that yes, okay, he was a guy they
drafted at number three. How many years are you gonna
go before you say, you know what, we just have
to move on from the guy.

Speaker 8 (50:28):
And I and if perty's good, what does it matter.
You're not paying him anything, right, You're not paying him anything.
Trey Lance is gonna get dealt He's gonna get traded
at some point because there's gonna be enough quarterback needy
teams that can take a flyer on him. Now, is
it gonna be something more than a fourth round pick?
Or maybe, if you're lucky, a third round pick may

(50:48):
But I'm thinking if you get a fourth round pick
for Trey Lance, you're pretty lucky. But there are gonna
be teams that can take that risk. There's not many
of them that can say in the middle of training camp, hey,
we're gonna bring in trade Lance, especially when you don't
know what's going on after this year's contract situation. But
to the point where it's got to be a team
that after he acclimates himself, he can see the field

(51:11):
for at least half the season, right, that's him to
sign Trey Lance, to make a trade for him. It's
got to be that type of situation. Yet we have
a question.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Stop, come on, Zach Wilson's great. You saw emmy off?

Speaker 3 (51:23):
He'll come in you Aaron Rodgers, Hell, every.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Rodgers is even making Zach Wilson grade at practice, all
the things people say about how great Zach.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Wilson's greatest motivational speaker since you know, Chris Farley was
jumping around in front of Christina Applegate.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
But there are some teams that can swing a trade
for him and take a risk on him to say, Okay,
if our quarterback situation doesn't work out, and we're sitting
there Week six, Week seven, maybe we're playing well, we
need to jump. Maybe, hey, our quarterback stinks and we
give Trey Lance a half season audition to be our quarterback.
There's some teams out there, and I'll tell you who

(52:04):
they are. Number one is the New England Patriots because
they're going and you know, Mac Jones and Bill Belichick
don't see eye to eye. We've heard reports that Belichick
and Jones, hey, they don't really talk that much. And
you know Mac Jones not one of his favorites after
saying I'm gonna go outside the team to try to
find out what I should do at quarterback. So you

(52:24):
know Mac Jones is coming in. Okay, it's gonna be
his job. But hey, Trey Lance is someone clearly that
Bill Belichick can go grab and by the middle of
the season, whether it's because he hates mac Jones or not.
If mac Jones is just okay, guess what Trey Lance
can come in and play and maybe the New England
Patriots hit on something with him, change of a change
of venue. That could happen for anybody but the Patriots.

(52:45):
That's the first thing I can tell you can swing
a trade for Trein Lance.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
Well, I mean, here's here's the question I would have
to ask. Does Mac Jones like Bill O'Brien. Did they
get along? Can Bill O'Brien coax a performance out of
mac Jones because Belichick's gonna have to shut up if
the offense actually performs, right, I mean, yes, he's Bill,
and we appreciate Bill and I love nothing more than

(53:09):
seeing the clips on the internet after every game that
he that he actually does breakdowns of film because he's
fantastic when he wants to play along, and he's getting
paid handsomely for the appearance. But that's the larger thing.
What's the relationship right now between Jones and O'Brien, Because
you certainly did a good job, at least on paper,

(53:29):
of revitalizing your receiving corps. Are they all A listeners
or are they any A listers? It doesn't need to be.
You can win with a good defense and B's and C's.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
The next team you can see doing this is Tampa Bay. Right,
they're gonna try to make it work with Baker Mayfield.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
You're killing are now?

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Baker and Kyle Trask? Both of them? I'm both of them.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
Look, wow, Trask hasn't even had the opportunity to show
you he doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
It doesn't matter. You know, you're one year for Mayfield.
He showed up in Caroline, any stunk. Now suddenly you
think he's gonna be really good in Tampa unless you
are tanking for Caleb Williams and Tampa then Trey Lance.
That's a team that can make that move. Saying all right,
we'll see and Baker if you stink after six weeks, hey,
we'll audition Trey Lance for the rest of the season.

(54:16):
Tampa Bay is the next team for Trey Lance.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Let me ask you this question in an honest moment
with Sean Payton. Tell me that Matt Rule was better
or worse than that?

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Oh, we're talking about guys who sucked really bad. Let
me tell you about these guys.

Speaker 3 (54:30):
Here's the guys on my metal stand. Let's get that
graphic up there. Come on, now, let's get that lower third.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
So that's the first couple of teams right off the top.
They can do it. Now the team i'd want to
see do it just for I mean, it's it's for
entertainment purposes, but it would also fit, if not for
the person he'd be replacing. But how great would it
be to see the Raiders trade for Trey Lance and
Sully Garoppolo's gotta say, ah, great, Now, I gotta stay healthy.
This guy's still in back of me.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
But it it would make complete and total sense, because
how healthy is Jimmy Garoppolo gonna be? Is he gonna
make it through the whole season? Look? I like Aiden O'Connell.
I've seen a lot of him play the last few years.
I think he's a good quarterback. But if you can
go hey and get Trey Lance basically for free and say, hey, Jimmy,
if you get hurt, we're going to Trey Lance. I mean,
I mean, that would just be so great. I can't
escape this guy. It's gotta be the two of us here.

(55:20):
But there's a cup those destinations. I'm telling you, Trey
Lance is gonna get dealt and it's gonna come sooner
rather than later because a team's gonna want him in
the building and learning the offense somewhat quickly, and I
don't know if it's gonna be Lance is gonna even
get a game to play. I mean today, I seeing
how he did today through four passes, completed one of

(55:41):
them and two of them were gimmes that he missed.
So I don't know how much longer he's even gonna
have before the Niners have to say we just have
to move on and we gotta do something else and
have more of a clarity in our quarterback room and
Brock party to Sam Darnold, that's pretty good clarity. And
you move on from Tray Lance, because I don't know
how you go forward with all three of those guys
on the roster. I don't think you do.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
I was gonna say, I think the clarity was there,
and Purdy is healthy. Purdy is your guy, Trey Lance.
I've been the guy leading the bandwagon of that sunk costs. Man.
Don't cry over those draft picks because they long gone.
Now the Raiders the one thing you have to remember there.
They're in the AFC West. They're gonna stink. And I've

(56:21):
already seen a lot of cool photoshops of Caleb Williams
in a Raiders uniform. So I think you're going to
contest with that. I don't think they'd get off of
that road. You know that speed train that we want
to build between La and Vegas. I think that they'd
like to have that, And Caleb Williams could be the
first passenger Twitter.

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